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Require public middle schools to include mandatory courses or seminars about empathy, emotional wellbeing, and basic social skills.

or

Put them with the other white-supremacists on a square of land and let them be an independent territory, on the condition that anyone who wants to leave must be allowed to leave to the US. And point and laugh as they realize only white men would want to live in a society that arbitrarily puts white men at the top.

or

Kindly ask the media to stop using the same 5 "scary SJWs who want to kill all men!!!!" to convince half the country that they are being persecuted by all women and minorities everywhere.

(disclaimer: results may vary.)

Before I left, I remember it being really bad. People were abusing therapyspeak without any regard for what the terms actually mean. Like, "my bf keeps violating my boundaries by not buying me gifts," "NTA your mom is parentifying you by asking you to clean the dishes," "divorce your wife of 7 years because she neglects you by asking for an hour alone every day."

Arguably both 'extremes' can become an excuse for inaction, pessimists may think "why even try if it probably won't help" while optimists may think "it'll resolve itself / look at the bright side." Similarly, both can be strategies for coping with disappointment. And can become a tiny bit delusional.

But at least optimists live in blissful ignorance lol. I think people underestimate an optimist's ability to see problems as just solutions waiting to happen.

I'm not a lawyer (yet) as I haven't taken the bar exam, but I remember learning this in law school.

I can't find the original court filing that all these news articles are reporting, but presumably, this is a special kind of suit seeking a "declaratory judgment" - a suit asking the court to prevent a harm before it happens.

Cornell Law School discusses it in a somewhat lengthy read but put "simply", for standing in this kind of case, the court would want to see:

a concrete controversy (as opposed to a hypothetical one, e.g. you can't seek a declaratory judgment "in case my neighbor decides to hit me"),

between adverse parties (some random citizen can't sue you for breaking a promise you made to your grandma),

that is ripe (where enough has already happened that a decision right now wouldn't require much speculation),

not moot (has to be able to affect the current case, for example, declaratory judgment isn't appropriate to determine "should he have done that?"), and

the court's decision is needed to prevent imminent harm (has to be relatively certain that a party would be adversely affected if the court doesn't prevent it from happening).

Here there could be issues of ripeness: the court might not want to act on the mere possibility that Trump will be found guilty of insurrection etc. Courts don't like to tell people what they can and can't do unless a real situation makes it necessary, otherwise the court would risk encroaching on powers that belong to the other branches of government.

Almost certainly, or else the suit could be dismissed on Double Jeopardy grounds. Even then, he would probably just appeal to the Supreme Court and get them to make up some reason to rule in his favor.

Granted. Unfortunately, it only works when you send yourself hate mail.

The Vulcans might have approved. Something about the needs of the many...

De-worming animals is probably still for the best. Even hookworms can be fatal to dogs, for example. And there are other worm parasites way worse than hookworms, like roundworms that can burrow through the intestines and up into the host's heart and brain. I wouldn't take the risk.

As much of a Trump as he is, my tinfoil hat theory is that we really, really need to keep this guy from getting Epstein'd. Have extra windows and livestream cameras if necessary. Cause if it happens, dems are 100% getting blamed and a few riots would be the best case scenario.

(No, I'm not advocating for it, just predicting it would happen in my rando crackpot theory.)

Gotta hit ya with the 🤓akshually🤓, Uber had never made a net profit until this past quarter, and supposedly its stock is still expected to fall anyway.

To be fair I don't know enough to say that the price increase is good, considering everyone I know stopped using uber because of the prices. But surprisingly they must have figured something out for the first time.